9-368: Pristine, Mine Site One, Crawler

The ore transfer station is just down the road, and a concrete thing may be better than a nebulous feeling.

In Green Shift the mine is a lot busier and people are about.

Alan drives the crawler around to the Ore Transfer station.

What Oliver sees is a series of conveyor, plus trucks, dropping crushed ore into a giant, sloped reservoir of rock.  At the end of the reservoir is a chute that empties into the ore buckets.  The buckets themselves arrive on a cable loop and then switch off to a secondary loop where they queue up under the ore chute.  Oliver watches for a time and it seems the flow from the chute is variable depending on how much ore is coming in at any given time, buckets leave when they are full, or after a maximum wait time.  Some are full and some nearly empty.  

When they leave along the secondary loop they switch back to the main loop, waiting for a few seconds if needed so that they are evenly spaced along the main cable. 

The main cable travels at about 10 km/T (40 km/h)

Questions?